The UK government's recent idea to move the UK from GMT/BST to CET/CEST and the Scottish Government's refusal to play along is quite interesting.Let's have a look at various locations in the UK and compare it with a city on the same longitude but further south, Málaga: Equinox (23/09/2011): This is the problematic time. In London, it's probably not a...
Jeg bagte forleden æbleskiver med småpigerne.Jeg havde regnet med, Anna nok ville prøve at vende dem, men jeg blev alligevel lidt overrasket, da Amaia (der fylder 2 den 11. januar) tog spisepinden ud af Annas hånd og fermt løftede en æbleskive fra panden over på tallerkenen!Alle børnene kunne vældig godt li' smagen af dem (min æbleskivepande havde forputtet sig, så...
En dansk netavis, som skal forblive unævnt, skrev forleden noget ævl om den “amerikanske højtid halloween”.
Hallowe’en stammer fra Skotland (og måske Irland), og selvom den nok er kommet til Danmark via USA, kunne man da godt være sig oprindelsen bevidst.
For det første staves ordet traditionelt med apostrof på denne side af Atlanten: Hallowe’en, ikke Halloween.
For det andet bruger man traditionelt roer og ikke græskar. Som Wikipedia skriver: “The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin.”
For det tredie kalder man det, børnene gør, guising, og ikke trick-or-treating. Wikipedia: “In Scotland and Ireland, Guising — children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins — is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money. The practise of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911.”
Og er det gået op for danskerne, at der hører karamelæbler til Hallowe’en?
Many people tend to lend their friends and family their (paper) books – in this house we have many books that have been read by at least four different people.However, ebooks are sadly not as flexible. If we look at the Kindle, the situation is as follows:Firstly, you can register multiple Kindles to the same account: "Practically speaking you're only going to want to share books with your family (or friends your trust completely). This is because you'll be sharing...
In Chinese, many concepts that we tend to have a single monolithic root word for in Western languages are expressed through more or less random compounds.For instance, watermelon is 西瓜 xī guā "western guā", cucumber is 黄瓜 huáng guā "yellow guā", pumpkin is 南瓜 nán guā "southern guā", papaya is 木瓜 mù guā "tree guā", wax gourd is 冬瓜 dōng...
‘Writing of the European revolutions of 1848, for instance, one historian recently noted: “At the beginning of 1848 no one believed that revolution was imminent.”’ This is from an article in The Independent today, arguing that Western nations are now...
I just finished reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang (or rather, 张戎 Zhāng Róng).I'm sure most people read it when it came out in the 1990s, but it somehow slipped under my radar and I only discovered it now.It's basically...
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